Re: Reading a file on the holding disk

[David Lloyd]

Chris!

> Why does if=<some device> work and if=<some file> does not? Is this
> because I have an ext2 filesystem on the disk and copied the file with
> cp?

If it's a file on an ext2 system, just use tar directly:

tar -xzvf the_file

OR

tar --extract --gzip --verbose --file=the_file

DL
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